Growth Hacking Secrets #1

Find confidential, proprietary information about how my competitors are running their business.

Pick up new industries & verticals 10x faster than I would have otherwise.

Find contact information for top influencers.

Create lists of over 5,000 PR contacts.

Build huge databases of SEO backlink providers.

Find cold email & cold calling scripts used by the best people in the industry.

All for $0.

This guide covers all you need to know to use Google Dorks to leave your competitors in the dust.

It’ll only cost you… $599.

Just kidding. 😉

This post is split up into 2 parts:

An introduction with a brief how-to.

29 examples of growth hacking with google dorks.

Lets start off simple:

An introduction to Google dorks

Before you can start using google dorks to scale, lets answer a question:

What’s a google dork?

A Google dork is a search string that uses Google’s custom search operators to filter down search results. When used creatively, these filters can return information that wasn’t meant to be found. Exploiting Google dorks is known as Google dorking or Google hacking.

You can search Google for strings that are optimized to return sensitive documents…

Like contact lists, potential leads & more.

A lot of these documents probably shouldn’t have been on Google.

Here’s a Google dork to find CEO contact lists.

Here’s how you can put google dorks together yourself:

How to filter your google searches with operators.

You can filter your search with Google Operators.

An operator is a short string that tells Google which results you want to remove…

And which you want to show more of.

Here’s a table that shows some of the most popular search operators. (See the full list here.)

Search Operator

Description

Example

OR

A logical OR

tesla OR edison

“Search Term”

Search for an exact match

"tallest building"

–

Exclude words from your search

jaguar speed -car

+

Search for a synonym

+California

info:

Get details about a site

info:google.com

site:

Search within a specific website

site:youtube.com

filetype:

Target a specific extension

filetype:pdf

intitle:

Search for a phrase in the title

intitle: "tesla vs edison"

Include these in your google searches to filter down the results you’ll get.

Read on and see 29 examples of Google dorks in action:

The big list of Google dorks.

These Google dorks search for CSV, XLS and XLSX files that contain email addresses in them. This is perfect for finding contacts that you should reach out to.